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• Former child prisoners are upset by the ignorance of the authorities
• The Saeima moves to extend the ban on the usage of the USSR symbols in public

Vesti Segodnya reports about the victims' commemoration ceremony held at the site of the former Nazi-operated concentration camp in Salaspils. The annual ceremony is held on the same date as the date of the rebellion in Buchenwald camp in 1945, which prevented the Nazis from destroying the evidences of crimes. The leader of the NGO "Memory for the Future" Yelena Gribun recalls that the worst ordeal of all experienced at Salaspils camp was the forcible withdrawal of blood from the child prisoners for the needs of Nazi army hospitals. Her whole family was deported by the Nazis from Byelorussia to Salaspils camp. The participants of the commemoration ceremony are upset about the fact that the site is neglected by the local authorities, while high state officials who were invited to the ceremony ignored this event.

The Saeima moves to amend the Law "On the Security of Public Entertainment and Festive Events" by including the ban on the public usage of the symbols of the USSR, Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic and the Nazi Germany. Currently, similar ban exists in the Law "On Meeting, Processions and Pickets". Some observers believe the draft amendments use vague, unclear language which leaves a large room for arbitrary interpretation. MP Igors Pimenovs (Concord Centre) opposes the move and stated that these amendments equate the aggressor (Nazi Germany) which had to be defeated by the world allied forces, and the victim of that aggression, which suffered and won that war (USSR); had the USSR lost the WWII, there would be no Latvia today. MP Dzintars Rasnacs (All for Latvia! - For Fatherland and Freedom / Latvian National Independence Movement) argued in favour of the amendments, because without the amendments, the Soviet symbols could be freely used by the participants of 9 May (the day of victory over the Nazi Germany as celebrated by many people in the former USSR). Latvijas Avize, Vesti Segodnya